Dear Lucy, I would like to post the Final Report of the Roundtable Discussion on Mainstreaming MHPSS in Humanitarian Action: Focus on East Africa. This was held on 6 Nov 2014 in the context of the First East African Regional Conference on Psychology in Kampala. Thanks a lot. Brinda Wachs View

Dear Lucy, I would like to post the Final Report of the Roundtable Discussion on Mainstreaming MHPSS in Humanitarian Action: Focus on East Africa. This was held on 6 Nov 2014 in the context of the First East African Regional Conference on Psychology in Kampala. Thanks a lot. Brinda Wachs

Dear Maria,
Sent you a message but it got lost:) Just read your article. Would you and/or your colleagues be interested in participating in a roundtable discussion on “Mainstreaming MHPSS into Refugee and IDP Operations” I am organizing at the First East Africa Regional Conference on Psychology in Uganda in November 2013? Please let me know.…[Read more]

Dear Inka,
Thank you for this, very interesting. It seems as if IMC is one of very few international actors taking this issue seriously and working on the ground. I worked for UNHCR from 2011-2012 and was in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya and Jijiga Camps in Ethiopia. At the time I was an advisor for NRC on climate change adaptation and disaster…[Read more]

An interesting essay on community-based group interventions for children exposed to the war in Sri Lanka. Please cross-post in the group: Psychosocial Care & Protection of Children as this is not given as an option to post in (bug in the system?)

Website showing what the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen (WHO/Euro) is doing on mental health, including personal stories and publications (e.g. Mental Health in Southeast Europe), the latter of which could be useful for…[Read more]